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please | chuff |

As verbs the difference between please and chuff

is that please is (label) to make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to while chuff is (slang) to purposefully fail a standardized test in a conspicuous way or chuff can be to make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.

As an adverb please

is or please can be [http://wwwdaredictionarycom/view/dare/id_00044218].

As an adjective chuff is

(british) surly or chuff can be (british) pleased.

As a noun chuff is

a coarse or stupid fellow or chuff can be (scriptwriting|uncountable) superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot or chuff can be the vagina.

please

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ).

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(pleas)
  • (label) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./1/1
    • , passage=And so it had always pleased M. Stutz to expect great things from the dark young man whom he had first seen in his early twenties?; and his expectations had waxed rather than waned on hearing the faint bruit of the love of Ivor and Virginia—for Virginia, M. Stutz thought, would bring fineness to a point in a man like Ivor Marlay, […].}}
  • To desire; to will; to be pleased by.
  • * Bible, (Psalms) cxxxv. 6
    • Whatsoever the Lord pleased , that did he.
    Synonyms
    * (to make happy) satisfy * (to desire) desire, will
    Antonyms
    * (to make happy) annoy, irritate, disgust, displease
    Related terms
    * pleasant * pleasurable * pleasure

    Etymology 2

    Short for if you please, an intransitive, ergative form taken from which replaced pray .

    Alternative forms

    * (for the exaggerated way it is often pronounced as the expression of annoyance) puh-lease

    Adverb

    (-)
    • Please , pass the bread.
    Would you please sign this form?
    Could you tell me the time, please ?
    • —May I help you? —Please .
    • Oh, please , do we have to hear that again?
    Derived terms
    * pretty please

    Etymology 3

    Calque of (etyl) [//books.google.com/books?id=4e7XLGfekD8C&pg=PA16][http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/how-to-speak-cincinnatiese/]

    Adverb

    (-)
  • [http://www.daredictionary.com/view/dare/ID_00044218]
  • * 1973: "Bitte or Bitter?", , August 1973, p. 109 [//books.google.com/books?id=CesCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA109]
    • Fellow: May I have a few days off to get married?
    Reply, in the Cincinnati idiom by a boss who had heard the sound but not the sense:
    Boss: Please ?
  • * 1978: Virginia Watson-Rouslin, "A Foreign View", Cincinnati , September 1978, p. 110 [//books.google.com/books?id=cesCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA110]
    • Even though I heard it was supposed to be German-Catholic background, there’s only one thing German — they say ‘please ’ [for the more common ‘pardon me’], which comes from bitte .
  • * 1979: "Winners: Contest No. 13—The Laugh’s On Us", Cincinnati , September 1979, volume 12, issue 12, p. 15 [//books.google.com/books?id=dusCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15]
    • “…He explained in broken English that one of his daughters was ill and he probably could not be there. I did not understand all that he said, so asked, ‘Please ?’ per Cincinnati custom. ‘There is no need to plead. I will be there if she is feeling better,’ he replied.”
  • * 1998: Jose I. Sarasua, "Come to Cincinnati... Please?", Cost Engineering , volume 40, issue 5, 5 May 1998, p. 9 [http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/editorials/664754/come-cincinnati-please]
    • Cincinnati are some of the most polite persons I have ever met in the US. When asking someone a question, instead of saying “Excuse me,” or “Pardon,” they say “Please ?”
  • * 2001: Jeff Robinson, "Say what?", Ohio Magazine , April 2001, p. 77 [http://lrc.ohio.edu/lrcmedia/Streaming/lingCALL/ling270/saywhat.pdf?page=2]
    • By the same token, one contestant who doesn’t hear a particular question could say “Pardon me?” while another could say “Please ?” Again, neither would be lying if he said he was from Ohio.
  • * 2008: , The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English , ISBN 0374254109, p. 255 [//books.google.com/books?id=3eerb4RTYF8C&pg=PA255]
    • In Maine, where as much as a quarter of the population has French ancestry, you may hear a stray hair called a couette'', and in parts of Ohio ''please'' is used in the same way as the German ''bitte , to invite a person to repeat something just said – apparently a remnant of the bilingual schooling once available in Cincinnati.
  • * 2011: Ellen McIntyre, Nancy Hulan, Vicky Layne, Reading Instruction for Diverse Classrooms: Research-Based, Culturally Responsive Practice , Guilford Press, ISBN 1609180569, p. 72 [//books.google.com/books?id=m7BAOCj8mHQC&pg=PA72]
    • Ellen grew up outside of Cincinnati and believed her own talk was the “norm,” while others were speakers of dialects. She was in graduate school before she learned that not all people say, Please ?'' to mean ''Can you repeat that?
    Synonyms
    * (request to repeat) what, excuse me, pardon me, come again

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    chuff

    English

    Etymology 1

    15th century, dialectical, in noun sense “stupid fellow”. Adjective sense “surly, displeased” from 1832.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British) Surly.
  • (UK, dialect) stupid; churlish
    • (Wright)
    Synonyms
    * (surly) chuffy * (swollen) chuffy

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A coarse or stupid fellow.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (slang) To purposefully fail a standardized test in a conspicuous way.

    • Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic. English onomatopoeias Compare chug and puff.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
  • * 1912 , Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", Selected Short Stories
    • The horses stumbled along, coughing and chuffing .
  • * 1928 , D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
    • ... and the small lit up train that chuffed past in the cutting made it seem like real night.
  • * 1990 , John Updike, Rabbit at Rest
    • The pigeons chuff and chortle off in indignant disappointment.
  • (British, informal) To break wind.

    • Noun

    (-)
  • (scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.

    • Etymology 3

    1520s, in sense “swollen with fat”; circa 1860, British dialect, in sense “pleased”. Possibly related to “coarse, stupid, fat-headed” sense.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British) Pleased.
  • (obsolete) Swollen with fat.
  • Swollen.
    • Derived terms
    * (pleased) chuffed

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The vagina.

    • References

    * “ chuff]” at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic’s Companion: A British Slang Dictionary